The Seaforth News, 1934-07-19, Page 2t:FAGE TWO
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934
Re-enact Tuckersrnith Scenes of 100 Years Ago
Alastair ;Broadfoot and Greeta Broadfoot are apparently enjoying
their drive in a smart buggy of by -gone years, while costumed as gay lad
and lass of their great grandfather's time. The picture was taken at the
Broadfoot centennial reunionlastWednesday.
HURON NEWS
Late Mrs. M. J. Stevens, — The
bath occurred at Guclericlt en Friday
vco of Mrs. \Lary lane Stevens,
,;,I<:.tt of the late John Stevens, in
44 year. \Irs. Stevens suffered .a
egrnke of paralysis last week. She w -as
'i.tra in the Township of Colborne,
the daughter of ,l ihn and Elisabeth
's.\'hhera \lliu. •who came front I)ev-
eetire, 1•:n!abtnd. Prior to coating to
„d^_rich twenty years a;++, she and
he-•• `disband farmed -in Colborne, and
irctl at MaGaw for eight year*, when
they were burned out, Mr. Stevens
3iec1 'fifteen years age. Surviving are
ere brother Joshua .\llin. a son Wil -
fan• ;Stevens of C111 borne. 'Town'ship,
-,told daughter tIierthat Mrs. Reuben
'.;rsig,q of tiodcrich. There are ten
. r at.dcliiidr en and four great grand-
.:hiidren.
Five Drowned in Lake Huron. —
Thlte were sw-opt t., death by Lake
Hereon's undertow at Inverhuron
.3each, near Kincardine. William
.'.sang ley of Guelph lost his life in a
Ac`!ent attempt to sate Jow•illa 'Todd,
12, and her 14 -year-old sister Fier-
nc,r- Two youths retched' another
sister Fay. On the sane clay, Sunday,
1•in-rocs Squires, .19, and John f Dea-
,34, of -London, were cought by
r,tundertow at limperwash Beach near
Sonia, and disappeared before help
ill reach then.
Cattle Killed by Car, --!hiving over
ht- rot of a hill on ITighway Na 4,I
three: miles north of Clinton, Walter
v ntpsou of Goderich, ran plumb
27 head of cattle being driven by
•,tog girl across the road from one I
c,as:;tre to another, 'three 01 the eat -
lc were injured by the impact.
Traffic Case.—In traffic court at
-iritiortlt -Frank Cohen, fill Irvin street,
Kitchener, was fined $1.0 and costs for`
ekless driving. The charge arose out
ti accident t o highway S on June,
21.-t. when the Kitchener car crashed
-tato itnother driven by William Liv-
irty.-t.tea Hallett Township. as the
-a".e r was turning into a farmer's
,riteway. Livingstone swore he put
nx
his hand to signal the turn. but
Flat Cohen came Over the brow of the
ao- fast he was unable to avoid the
gash. The traffic officer testified the
.',omen car deidded 75 feet before the
• 'epa,i, and that b,dh machine: were
,•, returned in tate ditch when he ar-
ind,irateil a bear of no small pro-
portions:—Teesw'ater ,News,
Killed in Runaway. •-The funeral of
Wesley Idnrlsuu All" held last weeds
rolxt hi late rt'sidcure On the 2nd of
Kinloss. lir, Iludson eh. Das in 73rd
•• year, was fatal:t injured when an
accident occurred when driving a
.Least: oi horses raking hay en hie own
farm. He was found immediately af-
ter the accident by his daughter Greta
-vhxi noticed the horses running away.
Married at Staffa. —A pretty wed -
'ling took place Statnrday aftermxnt
at the United Church parsonage at
-itrefa when ,Rev. Mr. Turner united
4n marriage Mabel 3. Jewell, daughter
r11 the late Mr. and Mrs, Isaac Jewell
if Logan to Ivan Wells 'Tiiggerson of
Mitchell, sun of Mr. and Mrs, John
Hi.ggersua of 'T'oroat°. Mildred Pratt
„vas bridesmaid and brant Kropf was
,ea mut, both 01 Stratford. A wed -
ling meal was .served at the home of
the bride's aunt, lira. James Malcolm.
Viterward's the bride and bridegroom
left on a trip to Toronto and points
tart.
Beware of the Bear 1 — Several
etighta agog Mr. .Leslie McKee of
Teeewater who has an apiary just op-
poeite. :\Ir. George 'Steel's, found sev-
oriel hives upset,and one dragged
',lime distance and broken into. On
investigation the tracks of abear were
liscovered''in the earth leading to
and from the hives. Large paw: printer
Brussels Woman Called by Death--
With
eath-\Vith tate passing of Miss Sarah
Black, at her _home last week, Brus-
sel; fort another well known and
highly respected citizen. 'For the
past few- ,years she has resided in
the village, but the greater part of
her 7u years was spent .nn the 4th con-
cessi,n Of Morris. She had been
stricken several days previous to her
death. To .mourn their loss she
leaves' ane brother, Peter, Owen
Sound; and one sister, airs, ilex.
King of 4th concession of Morris.:In-
terntent was iii Itr0 Bela Cemetery.
!'all hearers were Jack Yttin, Alex.
Brewer, Jack Bowman, Thos. Mc-
Donald, Dorton MoDeugall and I).
tKinnoti. .Ain ng those attending
the funeral front a distance were: Mr.
Jut. Block of Detroit; lir. and Mrs.
Leslie he Lamont of Kincardine and
Mrs. Coates and daughter of Ethel.
Grob - Martin. -- The Evangelical
1 uu'tage, Zurich, was the scene of
an interesting trolling on July 10,
when Lylyan \\', Martin, daughter of
\Ir, anal Mrs, Solomon \lartiu of
Babylon Line, 1itty Township, was
united in holy weds etc with \ir. Os•
car S. (irtb, also of Babylon lane,
end sen of Mr. and 'Mrs, Simon Greb
:is Exeter.' They were unattended.:\f-
ter the ceremony a wedding break-
fast was served at the hone of the
int parents. Later the bridal cou-
ple left for Michigan. and parts in
Ohio, and on their return will take
np residence on the groom's fine Lunt
im the 11ahyto t Line.
ZURICH.
lir. Fred Steinbach, who has been
spending a month visiting his mother
-and other friends, has returned. to his
home in Cavalier, North Dakota.
Miss Jessie E. \laci)otald is spend-
ing' the holidays at her home near
Kincardine.
11r..\ibert Horner •and sister Mrs.
.\ lues of Varna; Mr. and Mrs. J.
V. Horner of Zurich. tuul Mrs. E. G.
Krueger of the i14th con., motored
to Bad Axe. \lich., and attended the
funeral of bIrs, N. ,Parent, a niece of
Mr. J. \V. !Turner,
All aeroplane passed directly over
the village last week, in an easterly
1irettlaht.
\(r. !Geo. Edighoffer of Mitchell
called on friends here recently.
\tr. Ben Geiger front Saskatche-
w•an tva, a visitor at the home of Mr.
anti 'airs. T), Gingerich.
Mr. Arthur lEdighuffer has purch-
ased Front Mr. Tuhn' Gailman itis
fine dwelling property together with
three acre- of land.
\Irs. J. Dietrich of Ayton is at pre-
sent visiting with her parents, Mr.
and \i rs. \\1n. Ruhr,
Mrs. Samuel 'Geiger and daughter
of ISitska'tev'an are visiting friends in
Zurich and Crediton.
W.C.T.U. CONVENTION
In speaking to the \V;C.T.tT. con-
vention inBlyth on Thursday, July
5th, Rey. Mr, Gardiner of S.ondes-
Ivoro stated that in hall the 'homes of
our province the people willingly tax
themselves $1.112Ih'':ot) annually For lido-!
or. While the majority of women are
on the .side of temperance there are
Al many .who have joined forces with
the wets, in snare nays, beeanse their
husbands vote wet, So that the exer-
cise of franchise by women has not
done away with the liquor traffic as
bad been hoped. Liquor is consumed
by women note, Tlhpae who are learn-
ing to drink are not old enough to
have seen tihe dreadful side, of the
lrhhk traffic. Many men are crying
today 'Give us something with a'
kick - in it," and they might add "so
that we rant .go' hone and kick our
wives and children:" ,\ slogan of the
wets is "11 a thing is repeated often
•enough people will believe it," so the)
publish many falsehoods by press and
radio •until the public think they are
true, One such false statement is that
Government Control doe; away with
the bootlegger, whereas the cnntrat'y
is true. Before the O."l'..\. carte into,
force •there were more Bootleggers
than while it was in force and since
the O,'P..\, has been ;abolished and
government sale has taken its place
there are more bootleggers than ever,
In the 1'.S,.\. since -tile repeal of the
1311h amendment 'bootleggers are tell-
ing twice aS much as previehtsly, :\ns
other false argument that greater
liquor consumption will bring back
prosperity, whereas no country ever,
yet drank itself rich. The I114th amend-
ment in the States was blasted for
the depression• but strange to say in
Ontario at the same time, under •Gin'
eminent sale there was also depres-
slen. A. great campaign has been
launched to teach -yonng people to
drink, \Ve must start in the primary.
grades if we would educate our
hays and girls•agcrinst the use 01 in-
toxicants which destroy the brain
tell-, weaken the heart and cause gen-
eral debility.
-"Write it on the churchyard *ate,
- \\'rite k an the schooPiy's slate,
'Where there's drink there's danger.' "
il'lle use of narcotic,: 1a 0(1 the itt-
.reale 111 Huron County, according to
the report of the Anti -Narcotic Com-
mittee. Iliteitile' are using eigarettes
ut greater numbers.. Older lova huv
them For younger ones. Girls and wo-
men are using more. Since nicotine
affects the cells of the .brant what avill
be the effect on the coming genera-
tion? The inl3ortanee of the "child itt
the midst" was emphasized through -
Art the day. Tie only Way at the
,.resent time of lighting the liquor
traffic is to edpettte the children
against it. The ratio of the school
teacher's influence compared with
the influence of an organization such
as the \\.,C.T,f'. was likened to that
of a'1001). candle power light compared
with the light of 0110 candle. \il SIM -
day schools should compete for the
trinity shield which is given to the
school having the -largest percentage
of its scholars writing on the temper-
ance study course. 1'f Sunday school
teachers - and superintendents wtcuId
give the children enthusiastic leader-
ship in it, most of the children in our
Sunday Schools would writs, )Miss
.Murray, the Coenty President, said,
The 'forces which are against us are
tremendous but not nearly 00 tre-
mendous. as those that are for its if
we would only use then: Lord Astor
said that the time woad come when
people would despise the use of Liquor
just as we today despise the Mare
traffic." Miss Merray said that de-
pends on the Chtirch of Jestu Christ.
Are we true to Him? The officers of
last year were re-elected, •
Otte of the girls in a teacher's dais
was busily chewing gum in defiance
of school late. To make her crime
worse she was sitting with her feet
sprawled out 1n the. aisle.
The teacher, entering the room stud-'
deme, was quick to call attention to
the misbehavior.
"Jennie Jones," .slit said, sharply
"take that gunk out of your mouth
acid nut your feet int"
Worms sap the strength an:d ,under-
mine the vitality of children. Strength-
en them by using\l
ather. 'Gravies'.
Worm Externliaato.r to drive out rhe.
p
ras
•
Send us the 081110s of your visitors
Outstanding
Quality
THE HEPBURN CABINET
Mr, Mitchell i-Iepburn and his Cab-
inet took over the reins of govern-
ment Tuesday afternoon,'July 10, and
a meeting 'of the Cabinet was held im-
mediately, The cabinet
11'rime Minister, '.President of the
Council and iProvincial Treasurer --,-
Hon.
Hon. Mitchell 17reclericic. Hepburn.
:Attorney-iGeneral and Minister of
Labor — IHon. Arthur Wentworth
Roebuck,
!Provincial Secretary and !Registrar
and Minister of Games and Fisheries
flora d -Larry C. ,Nixon,
.Minister Of .E•dttcation—Ilon. Leon-
ard J; .Sinapsoi ,
Minister of -Agriculture—II-Ion. Dun -
:ah Marshall,
Minister of Highways and Public
\\'.orks--thou. Thomas 'B. licOuesten,
Minister of Lands and Forests and
of Northern Development--:IIon, Pet-
er 'Heenan.
Minister of Health --)Hon, J. Albert
Faulkner,
Minister of 'Mines — Hon. Paul
Leduc,
Minister of 'Welfare — Flout Dated
A, Croil, lir. Croll will become 'Min-
ister also for the new Department of
Municipal Affairs,
' Fresh from
the Gardens
GRAND BEND PIONEER
.1t the home of Mrs. S. E. Eagle-
son, Grand Bend, N7 years young; a
little sweet-faced lady with silvery
hair, poring over a puzzle with the
aid of a hand -lens, writes L. Atchison
in the London Fi'ee Press, For two
hours she entertained—happy little
anecdotee, spiny tales of a sailor's life,
mitts. and wise remarks about every
subject broached.
When 1 was tett years old, the
Methodist group started a Sunday
School (we were cast iron Presby-
teeians) and I was allowed to attend,
and hoe' we eat has touch to do with
the serenity 017 otherwise of our dis-
position and atmosphere.
"''Here is the story of a bear that
might have hugged us. One evening
the cows were turned on the grass
and I was sent to herd them off the
crop. 1 had a book with tate as usual,
and seated nxyselif on the edge •of the
grass, but the spot had been pre-
empted, '1 was no sooner seated than
a large garter -snake 'wriggled away
from between my bare legs and slid
through the grass. I was soon deep
in my book, so absorbed that later,
though subconsciously I heard a
noise, I paid no attention to it: Soon
mother called. "Bring the cows • to
the byre" As 1 rotttsded them up, I
noticed then looking in one direction
with their ears set back. The next
moment mother called to. her brother
across the way, (father was- not at
home) 'John, come o'er and bring
your gun—here's a bear," But Bruin
didn't wait for Johnnie and his gun,
He turned tail; jumped over the
fence, and disappeared into the bush.
'flit fence was what is called a
"shake and rider," and the top pole
was broken where Bruin made his
exit, also his entry, which provec4 his
great weight,
On those early clays, whiskey seem-
ed to ,he plentiful. \Ve knew a fancily
who kept it in a pail on the kitchen
table with a dipper in it. A neighbor
who dropped in, ehow•ed his surprise,
'i'he woman of the Bottle said, "Sure,
that's not much in a house where
there's ,ao milk,"
t1 had a pioneer uncle named Will -
/le, who was present vne day at a pig -
killing. At ten 'o'clock he was not
tante and 1115 wife went to sec what
could be keeping hint. When site
reached the scene of he killing, she
could see through the uwcurtained
window and the men were evidenatiy
•
to the natives and travellers as "T'au
I'ineny. Practically everyone tvh
gazcd on its majestic natural splend-
our wondered why this ideal location,
with its wide expense of forest, lake
and stream, was not developed in
preference to other more thickly pops
Mated districts. \Irs. MacArthur, in
recollection, says, "Looking back, 1
can see that we did not realize all
the beauties of the wildwoods around
us. There were hundreds of acres
of primitive forests, It was like an
immense park, so free from under-
brush. It was like wanting on a vei•
vet c'arpe't, the result of countless
layers of fallen leaves. There were
many wild flowers, and the place was
alive with birds. People drive hue -
deeds of mites now in search of such
a retreat. Then it was hard to see the
beauty in .the forest; it meant too hard
work to get rid of it illn-order to grow
the nec'es'sities of life."
(Perhaps most Canadians do not
know that cranberries, which they
import front United 'States, grey and
still are found wild in the Piateries, in
that weird hooking section called the
"flowed• lands." Mrs. MacArthur used
often to go there and 'pick cran-
berries. She tells it itt her own illi-
mitable wary: "Have you ever gone
cranberry -picking? I'1 you haven't,
then you have missed something. We
used to make quite a lark of it. One
neighbour used to talce his team iffess
take a wagon -load of its—girls ant
women --and drive about eight utiles
from the Betttl through the Pinery-:
then turn to the 'left a short distance
and we were at the "flowed lands."
Of course, we ail dressed suitable tet
the occasion. The accepted rig was
short skirts, long-legged cow' -hide
boots and old straw hats. Two w-ou!1
elect to stay an shore and attend to
our lunch while the rest plunged into
the dismal swamp. i•t was indeed a
hough it was considered rather tatting 'their "ti ocice0 dorus." 'They weird ho,1 t5 , place, a tree standit
"risky." On my expressing a wish for were standing .shaking hands all here and there. Rare of 'foliage or
„book both my 'er-
a Methodisthntttn u t s may ) P, round, happy
tv as lord:. "Kitts t y I _
r tt 11 . g bark, They rooked like ghostly entt-
ents were quite alarmed. Said father he Blest but they were glorious o'er; nets. The ground ryas covered dense -
t,; mother, "£ think we'd better keep all ills of life victorious." As aunty' ly
with a rank growth of tat grasses,
her at home. She'll be a A'tethodp putt her head in at the dour, Uncle barberry bushes, etc, The ground was)
fust thin; ,we know," However they w•as saying, "We've been guid irfensl so spongy one could ; haee tor
yn
decided to let 100 finish the season r}
as it was understood that .I was likely
to carry off the prize. My teacher
had noticed that I seemed to have
a 'grad monitory—so she asked me to
do 111y best and any to conte out
r total of a certain boy who had al-
ways conte out first. 'I'lte next Sun-
day I had over 70 verses and the next
I rattled off 3,013 from the Book of
John without an error, 'Whether from
a Christian motive or not I won the
prize and contin-sed to win it."
flier school days were limited to
two mouths each year for three years,
hit to her wide personal experience,
and a great variety of good litera
tune coupled with a constant use of
a gond dictionary site credits the
fulness of her education. Her reten-
tive memory readily responds to her
needs and supplies a flow of beautiful
language. At the age of ten she had
read, among other shooks, Dickens'
"ilontbey and !Son," Bit "Pil-
grim's 'Progress," and the Bible in its
entirety. She is at present re -read -
"Oliver Twist" and "David Copper -
field. 'She is constantly worieing
puzzles: none .are too di&ficul't.
At the age of twenty, having spent
two 'oars in Toronto, she ' returned
to Grand 'Bend to find romance wait-
•ing for her. 'It was not so easy to
find a minister, however. Journeying
to Thedford, 114 miles away, on a
wagon, the situation was saved by
the best ran. who found a much
wanted divine on a train which stop-
ped there, And so they two were
wed, it mattered not that the officiat-
ingclergyman was Anglican instead
of Presbyterian. To this short but
happy union were born three children,
Jack, Arthur and Jessie. •
The following is for those Who wish
to be young at 87 "'T will mention it
few of the things which, I believe,
have helped me to achieve a spirit Of
youthftilitess and a' clearness of mind.
T heliere it is largely a matter of tem-
perament. Tlt is fortunate for one to
be born an optimist. I think .1 must
have been. Serenity. A beautiful giftl
But when that stage is reached T
thin!: it presupposes the possession of
',everai other gifts, good Health far
one. It is• only of late years that I
litre realized that we radiate an at-
mosphere of our swat; which may be rivalled for speedy relief in muscularCatad'a. i Brough the intervening
swathing, healing..helpfui or the nr , rheumatism, lance 'back, inflammation,
tole. £ believe that what '.We eat vc:u hecamca0'ectionately kilotcttIbuena and felons.
ever since we care to the bush and
we'll aye be gelid ',fens," "Yell nae
he :;lid fritts wi'nte very long if ye
dintte conte awa !tame." Uncle,
shamed and penitent, hastily loolced
for his bonnet and started off at
such a gait that she conld hardly
keep up with him. Before reaching
home they met Collie and the tw:;
bairns. When little \Gallie was ask-
ed what he thought when they evoke
and foutiel they were alone, he said,
"Oct we thncht ye had goon awa
o'er to 'Walker's agin to grin' the cof-
fee and we wadna be back till
spring." •
"Did any of you ever look under
your bed at night fearing to find a
man there?) did once, but it was to
satisfy another person that there was
ro one there—and lo, I found a man!
in the year 11893, the year of the Chi-
cago World's hair. T was engaged. as
stewardess on one of the passenger
steamers designed to run ,between
Duluth and Chicago the entire season.
'rhe company had other boats, and
one was a freighter. When lying at
dock one clay, we were £invited over
to have dinner with the captain of
the freighter. \Ve had a nice dinner
and visit with our fellow sailors.
About eight o'clock we returned to
our oven vessel. My daughter Jessie
was standing in a listening attitude 1
our door. Holding lip her hand site
said, "T-latsh, .mother, there is some-
one in our room." — "Nonsense," said
T. "Yes, there is, I hear hint breath-
ing."
reath-ing. 1 th:ought that probably she had
got nervous and that what site
thought was 'breat'hing was only the
;wish of the water against the boat.
To satisfy her, 1 set my lamp on the
floor, knelt clown and peered under
the bad -and thele was a big mean
undterthe bed. A thionougb search of
the boat revealed two more stowa-
ways.
To return to the scenes of Mrs,
llacArtiur's younger days at Grand
Bend, a spot which is unique in many
ways. After the Napoleonic Wars of
18112, eGecr'ge the Third, who was then
reigning in England, gave to one of
his loyal subjects, a royal grant of
land in Elie ,New World :across the
seas -to be exact, on the shores of
Lake Hueco, int' what Was theft Upper
and it was only the intricate interlac-
ing of the routs which saved its front
gettitfg bogged. Cranberries grow
dose to the ground on slender vine,,
and the stents are so fragile that, on
striking a good patch, one can scoop
therit :up by the lwandfml. iI gathered
24 quarts off a small patch, but that
was an exeeption, The Indians used
to conte from Kettle ,Paint and gather
the creast of the crop before they
were ripe.
Of late years, the "flowed lands"
have been drained by a 'new river'
and have become a source of very
great wealth because of the well
known celery beds which Dover the
old swamp—but c Lauf but that's another story.
Some old timers reading this will re-
call Breuvster's Sawmill, wltich roost
have been .one of the first in the prov-
ince. It was situated on the Aux
Sables River a mile below what is
now Grand Bend. Besides The Pin-
ery, which is all sand, the Brew-
ster's had a farm of clay land which
lies along the river near the Bend,
When they left, having worked lip all
the available pine timber, the farm
was taken by a man—not a farmer—
who engaged father to work it for.
him on shares, \\''e ,moved there in.
18666 and the mill had been ,abandoned
some years ,before. The ofd boating
house on the .banks of the river ryas
still intact. We lived in lfhat. .all
around it was pure sant covered with
debris, w'hic'h was soon cleared away
and a space inclosed for mother's
flower garden, !Those could hardily be
called pioneer days, yet everything
was primitive. A log schoolhouse, also
used as a church, and a small .private
house was all there was of :Grand
Bread at that time, and 110 .bridge
across the river to reach school, or
church or .posto'liftce, We crossed in a
canoe, "Phe post office was a mile
ttott'h of the U-shaped .bencl in the
river and was called 13r.ewcters. ,Fath-
er was not successful Sere, for the
Aux Staibles river sometimes over-
flowed its :banks, r wo seasons out of
five, when the grain was about a foot
high, it over'flomcd and the :grain went
gaily s's'int'ming toward Port Frank.
Douglas' Egyptian .T lniment is tut-